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No. 593,632. Patented Nov. 16,1897'.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIKCE.

GEORGE W. ZERN AND MYRON H. MILHONE, OF GOOD HOPE, ILLINOIS.

CAR-MovER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 593,632, dated November 16, 1897. Application filed. May 1'7, 1897. Serial No. 636,952. (No model.)

tating the same in either direction for mov-v ing the car from or toward the operator.

The invention consists in the construction` and novel combination and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of a car-mover constructed in accordance with this invention and shown applied to a car-wheel. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the device detached, showing the opposite side thereof.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in both figures of the drawings.

1 designates an operating-lever provided at one end with a curved bearing-plate 2, adapted to it against and fulcrum the lever on the axle 3 of a car-wheel 4, which is engaged by a pivoted lever 5, fulcrumed on the operating-lever adjacent to the bearing end thereof. The operating-lever is maintained in engagement with the car-axle by a pivoted hook 6 and is adapted to bear against the upper or lower face of the said axle for a purpose hereinafter described. The shank of the hook 6 is provided with an eye to receive a pivot 7, and the swing of the hook is limited by a keeper 8, forming opposite stops.

The wheel-engaging lever 5, which is pivoted between its ends, is angular and has one arm arranged at an angle to the other, as p The engaging arm is provided at its outer end with a hook 9 to receive the ilange of the wheel, and the other arm of the wheelengaging lever is connected with the operating-lever by a spiral spring `10, which holds the hook 9 in engagement with the flange of the car-wheel.

The car-mover is adapted to engage a wheel and its axle, as illustrated in Fig. l of the ac-` companying drawings, with the bearing end of the operating-lever resting upon the axle and the hook 9 engaging the wheel below the center thereof. By swinging the handle end of the operating-lever upward the car-wheel is rotated forward and the car is moved from the operator; but the lever 5 and the oper ating-lever are adapted to be reversed and engage, respectively, the upper portion of the car-wheel and the lower face of the axle, vso that the operating-lever may be swung downward for moving the car-wheel in the direction of the operator.

It will be seen that the device lis exceedingly simple and inexpensive in construction, that it is strong and durable, and that it may be readily engaged with a car-wheel. It will also be apparent that the device is adapted to engage a car-wheel at the top or bottom and move the same in either direction.

What we claim isvl. A car-mover comprising an operatinglever designed to be fulcrumed on van axle, a pivoted hook mounted on the operating-lever and arranged to engage the axle at the opposite side thereof, and a spring-actuated hook carried by the operating-lever and arranged to engage the rim of the wheel, substantially as described.

2. A car-mover comprising an operatinglever adaptedto be fulcrumed on an axle, a

Wheel-engaging lever pivoted between its IOO Wheel-engaging lever pivoted between its our own We havehereto axed oursignatures in the presence of two Witnesses.

ends on the operating-lever and having its arms arranged at an angle, one of the arms GEORGE W. ZERN.

being provided with a hook and a spring con- MYRON H. MILHONE. 5 nected with the other arm and with the opei'- Witnesses: v

ating-lever, substantially as described. W. L. HAMILTON,

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as S. NV. CREEL. 

